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Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is going to be increasing in the coming years. The ice is melting, and they will be forced onto land to look for food.

[–] troed@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] troed@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

... and yet they survived the last interglacial, warmer than ours, with no sea ice in the arctic during summer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01227-x

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

That'll work out a lot better for them if people don't just shoot them every time they see them on land.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd like to point out to you that Neanderthals and the premodern man did not have high-powered hunting rifles and didn't live in almost every conceivable area on the planet with those hunting rifles.

[–] troed@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

You're absolutely correct. Since we stopped allowing hunting* the number of polar bears has grown consistently.

Historically, overhunting was the polar bears’ greatest threat. From the 1800s up through the 1960s, commercial and later sport hunters greatly reduced polar bear numbers. Populations rebounded in most places after the five polar bear nations signed the International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears. The Agreement halted commercial hunting and significantly curtailed sport hunting.

https://polarbearsinternational.org/news-media/articles/why-is-polar-bear-hunting-allowed

*) with caveats, as the article is really about